\u0160EFKIJA \u0160EFKO FEJI\u0106, son of MUHAMED, born on October 8, 1915, in Mostar. He was a student of architecture in Belgrade and had excellent knowledge of the French language. He became a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) in 1940. He was arrested by the Italians and interned in the Mamula camp. His mother, Adila, recounted, “They came to take \u0160efko away while he was asleep. They didn’t knock, they jumped over the wall and took him. That happened during the assassination of Jev\u0111evi\u0107, and he never returned. I went to see him in Zelenik, the Italian prison. I cooked something and brought it to him.” He was released after Italy’s surrender. He joined a partisan unit in the autumn of 1943. As a fighter, he died in battles near Bile\u0107a in August 1944. According to F. Buturovi\u0107, “He was captured by the Chetniks on Modropec while on guard duty\u2026 Two days later, they found his body parts on the wire\u2026 We could barely recognize him, and it was even harder to bury him\u2026”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the five deceased members of this family, four brothers and one sister: D\u017eemal<\/a>, E\u0161ref<\/a>, Esad<\/a>, Samija<\/a>. Both of \u0160efko’s uncles were killed by the Germans (one of them is Dr. Asim Opija\u010d<\/a>). One of the most famous streets in Mostar is named after the Feji\u0107 brothers. The well-known song “Mostarska mati” by Mostarske ki\u0161e is dedicated to \u0160efko’s mother, Adila Feji\u0107. In 1972, Mi\u0161o Mari\u0107 published an interview with Adila, which you can read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n EXCERPTS FROM LITERATURE:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Member of SKOJ and a former prisoner from Mamula, Fadil Buturovi\u0107, recalled their time spent with \u0160efko:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “I met \u0160efko Feji\u0107 in the concentration camp Mamula, an old French fortress – a small island at the entrance to the Bay of Kotor – to the extent that prisoners can get to know each other after spending days and months in the same cell. He was the leader for me and three other Mostar residents, serving as a link to the underground leadership of the camp. We shared the hardships of imprisonment, hunger, poverty, worries, small joys, and hopes – the last sip of a lean soup with a rare piece of macaroni, the daily ration of ten decagrams of bread, a green carob picked while working, remains of moldy food scavenged from the camp kitchen dump or from the harbor where we unloaded supplies and mail from Herceg Novi. Mahmud Konjhod\u017ei\u0107 briefly described \u0160efko’s capture and death in his short review “Heroic Mothers and Their Children: Adila”:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “When they came for her son \u0160efko, an architecture student, the house was surrounded by Chetniks and Italians. (\u2026) While he was sleeping, they captured \u0160efko and took him to prison, then to the Dubrovnik fortress of Lovrijenac, converted into a prison, and finally to a camp in Italy. 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I also remember his story about meeting my mother in the women’s section of the camp. He spoke French, learned Italian, and served as a translator for the camp administration. (\u2026) He loved me. He protected me as much as he could. He took my place for harder work assignments. He spoke to me as an equal. I felt his protective hand; I could always rely on it – the firm, dear hand of a friend.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n